Tools For Technical And Professional Communication

Author : Arthur Henry Bell
Publisher : N T C Business Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0844258156

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Tools for Technical and Professional Communication by Arthur Henry Bell Pdf

"Tools for Technical and Professional Communication is for writers preparing for careers in science business, and government. It bridges the traditional concerns of technical communication and the broader, emerging requirements of professional communication." "The text envisions writers and speakers who in their daily work use a wide variety of communication skills: generating and organizing ideas quickly and well; writing effective memos, letters, reports, proposals, and business plans; contributing to collaborative writing and presentation teams; devising graphics to aid communication; participating in and leading productive meetings; producing articles for publication; and employing the listening skills and interviewing strategies so crucial to career success." "Finally, a section of five case studies at the end of the book asks writers to imagine themselves in various professional situations and to practice the communication skills that those situations might require."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Tracy Bridgeford
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607326809

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Teaching Professional and Technical Communication by Tracy Bridgeford Pdf

Teaching Professional and Technical Communication guides new instructors in teaching professional and technical communication (PTC). The essays in this volume provide theoretical and applied discussions about the teaching of this diverse subject, including relevant pedagogical approaches, how to apply practical aspects of PTC theory, and how to design assignments. This practicum features chapters by prominent PTC scholars and teachers on rhetoric, style, ethics, design, usability, genre, and other central concerns of PTC programs. Each chapter includes a scenario or personal narrative of teaching a particular topic, provides a theoretical basis for interpreting the narrative, illustrates the practical aspects of the approach, describes relevant assignments, and presents a list of questions to prompt pedagogical discussions. Teaching Professional and Technical Communication is not a compendium of best practices but instead offers a practical collection of rich, detailed narratives that show inexperienced PTC instructors how to work most effectively in the classroom. Contributors: Pam Estes Brewer, Eva Brumberger, Dave Clark, Paul Dombrowski, James M. Dubinsky, Peter S. England, David K. Farkas, Brent Henze, Tharon W. Howard, Dan Jones, Karla Saari Kitalong, Traci Nathans-Kelly, Christine G. Nicometo, Kirk St.Amant

Author : Stephen Crabbe
Publisher : Institute of Scientific and Technical Company
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0950645990

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Current Practices and Trends in Technical and Professional Communication by Stephen Crabbe Pdf

Current Practices and Trends in Technical and Professional Communication is a valuable source of collective knowledge from our community of practice. Experienced practitioners and innovators (from the UK and international) are sharing what they know for the benefit of both the communicator and the end user.

Author : Yvonne Cleary
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000407389

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The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication by Yvonne Cleary Pdf

Practical, research-based overview of careers in technical communication featuring narratives from working professionals in a range of careers and international contexts Technical communication is a diverse, growing, and rapidly changing field, and an up-to-date guide to careers will be useful for students and junior professionals in the US and Europe Competing books on technical communication careers are outdated and do not include non-US contexts; this book contains current research and practitioner narratives that most closely examine careers as they operate today

Author : Greenlaw, Raymond
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466602380

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Technical Writing, Presentational Skills, and Online Communication: Professional Tools and Insights by Greenlaw, Raymond Pdf

"This book is a collection of work to assist any professional who needs to deal with ethical issues, write up a technical project, give or develop a presentation, or write material for an online audience"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Rebecca Walton,Godwin Y. Agboka
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646421084

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Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work by Rebecca Walton,Godwin Y. Agboka Pdf

Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work provides action-focused resources and tools—heuristics, methodologies, and theories—for scholars to enact social justice. These resources support the work of scholars and practitioners in conducting research and teaching classes in socially just ways. Each chapter identifies a tool, highlights its relevance to technical communication, and explains how and why it can prepare technical communication scholars for socially just work. For the field of technical and professional communication to maintain its commitment to this work, how social justice intersects with inclusivity through UX, technological, civic, and legal literacies, as well as through community engagement, must be acknowledged. Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work will be of significance to established scholar-teachers and graduate students, as well as to newcomers to the field. Contributors: Kehinde Alonge, Alison Cardinal, Erin Brock Carlson, Oriana Gilson, Laura Gonzales, Keith Grant-Davie, Angela Haas, Mark Hannah, Kimberly Harper, Sarah Beth Hopton, Natasha Jones, Isidore Kafui Dorpenyo, Liz Lane, Emily Legg, Nicole Lowman, Kristen Moore, Emma Rose, Fernando Sanchez, Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Adam Strantz, Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, Josephine Walwema, Miriam Williams, Han Yu

Author : Tracy Bridgeford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429601989

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Teaching Content Management in Technical and Professional Communication by Tracy Bridgeford Pdf

This collection offers a comprehensive overview of approaches to teaching the complex subject of content management. The 12 chapters define and explain content management and its accompanying competencies, providing teaching examples in areas including content strategy, topic-based writing, usability studies, and social media. The book covers tasks associated with content management such as analyzing audiences and using information architecture languages including XML and DITA. It highlights the communal aspects of content management, focusing on the work of writing stewardship and project management, and the characteristics of content management in global contexts. It concludes with a look to the future and the forces that shape content management today. The editor situates the collection within a pedagogical exigency, providing sound instructional approaches to teaching content management from a rhetorical perspective. The book is an essential resource for both instructors new to teaching technical and professional communication, and experienced instructors who are interested in upgrading their pedagogies to include content management.

Author : Margaret Hundleby,Jo Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351845854

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Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication by Margaret Hundleby,Jo Allen Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. The collection is organized to form a dual approach: on the one hand, it offers a landscape view of the activities involved in assessment - examining how it works at institutional, program, and classroom levels; on the other, it surveys the implications of using assessment for formulating, maintaining, and extending the teaching and practice of technical communication. The book offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners alike evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice. No other volume has addressed the demands of and the expectations for assessment in technical communication. Consequently, the book has two key goals. The first is to be as inclusive as is feasible for its size, demonstrating the global operation of assessment in the field. For this reason, descriptions of assessment practice lead to examinations of some key feature of the landscape captured by the term 'technical communication'. The second goal is to retain the public and cooperative approach that has characterized technical communication from the beginning. To achieve this, the book represents a 'conversation', with contributors chosen from among practicing, highly active technical communication teachers and scholars; and the chapters set up pairs of opening statement and following response. The overriding purpose of the volume, therefore, is to invite the whole community into the conversation about assessment in technical communication.

Author : Tracy Bridgeford,Karla Saari Kitalong,Dickie Selfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106017220572

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Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication by Tracy Bridgeford,Karla Saari Kitalong,Dickie Selfe Pdf

Programs in technical writing, technical communication, and/or professional communication have recently grown in enrollment as the demand among employers for formally prepared technical writers and editors has grown. In response, scholarly treatments of the subject and the teaching of technical writing are also burgeoning, and the body of research and theory being published in this field is many times larger and more accessible than it was even a decade ago. Although many theoretical and disciplinary perspectives can potentially inform technical communication teaching, administration, and curriculum development, the actual influences on the field's canonical texts have traditionally come from a rather limited range of disciplines. Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication brings together a wide range of scholars/teachers to expand the existing canon.

Author : Arthur Henry Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business communication
ISBN : 0844258164

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Tools for Technical and Professional Communication by Arthur Henry Bell Pdf

Author : J. Blake Scott ,Bernadette Longo ,Katherine V. Wills
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780791481660

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Critical Power Tools by J. Blake Scott ,Bernadette Longo ,Katherine V. Wills Pdf

Winner of the 2007 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Award for Best Collection of Essays on Technical and Scientific Communication The first book to focus on the intersection of cultural studies and technical communication, Critical Power Tools draws on various traditions of cultural studies to develop new or expanded theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical approaches to technical communication. Offered as a sourcebook for the field, the book is organized into three parts. The first section, emphasizing theory building, reconceptualizes key concepts or practices, such as usability, through a cultural studies lens. The second section illustrates alternative research methods through several case studies. The third section offers critical and productive pedagogical approaches, including specific assignments, applicable to both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Author : Margaret Hundleby,Jo Allen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351845861

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Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication by Margaret Hundleby,Jo Allen Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on both how and why assessment serves as a key element in the teaching and practice of technical and professional communication. The collection is organized to form a dual approach: on the one hand, it offers a landscape view of the activities involved in assessment - examining how it works at institutional, program, and classroom levels; on the other, it surveys the implications of using assessment for formulating, maintaining, and extending the teaching and practice of technical communication. The book offers teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners alike evidence of the increasingly valuable role of assessment in the field, as it supports and enriches our thinking and practice. No other volume has addressed the demands of and the expectations for assessment in technical communication. Consequently, the book has two key goals. The first is to be as inclusive as is feasible for its size, demonstrating the global operation of assessment in the field. For this reason, descriptions of assessment practice lead to examinations of some key feature of the landscape captured by the term 'technical communication'. The second goal is to retain the public and cooperative approach that has characterized technical communication from the beginning. To achieve this, the book represents a 'conversation', with contributors chosen from among practicing, highly active technical communication teachers and scholars; and the chapters set up pairs of opening statement and following response. The overriding purpose of the volume, therefore, is to invite the whole community into the conversation about assessment in technical communication.

Author : Johndan Johnson-Eilola,Stuart A. Selber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226924083

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Solving Problems in Technical Communication by Johndan Johnson-Eilola,Stuart A. Selber Pdf

The field of technical communication is rapidly expanding in both the academic world and the private sector, yet a problematic divide remains between theory and practice. Here Stuart A. Selber and Johndan Johnson-Eilola, both respected scholars and teachers of technical communication, effectively bridge that gap. Solving Problems in Technical Communication collects the latest research and theory in the field and applies it to real-world problems faced by practitioners—problems involving ethics, intercultural communication, new media, and other areas that determine the boundaries of the discipline. The book is structured in four parts, offering an overview of the field, situating it historically and culturally, reviewing various theoretical approaches to technical communication, and examining how the field can be advanced by drawing on diverse perspectives. Timely, informed, and practical, Solving Problems in Technical Communication will be an essential tool for undergraduates and graduate students as they begin the transition from classroom to career.

Author : Charles H. Sides
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9798216099468

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How to Write and Present Technical Information by Charles H. Sides Pdf

Thoroughly updated to discuss the use of tools such as Skype and social media, this concise volume shows how effective communication—via written text and spoken presentations—can positively impact project management in professional environments. Professional communications are the "information product" of all organizations and businesses. Based on that premise, this book offers communications strategies that will benefit any organization that disseminates technical information in-house and/or to customers. The popular work provides easy-to-understand and apply guidelines for designing and writing effective technical documents, as well as other related communications. What makes this new edition especially valuable is that it maintains the quality of information that distinguished the previous editions, but is now updated to encompass current technology and trends, including today's prevalent communication tools such as social media. The book begins by looking at skills common to all technical writing and offering general advice on designing and writing reports. Next is a discussion of specific types of reports along with common problems and issues writers face. Finally, the work overviews other forms of communications such as professional presentations. The updated material also considers the growing importance of interviews and focus groups as information-gathering tools, the influence of visual rhetoric, and the use of technologies such as Skype and webinars.

Author : David F. Beer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0471444731

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Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions by David F. Beer Pdf

An updated edition of the classic guide to technical communication Consider that 20 to 50 percent of a technology professional's time is spent communicating with others. Whether writing a memo, preparing a set of procedures, or making an oral presentation, effective communication is vital to your professional success. This anthology delivers concrete advice from the foremost experts on how to communicate more effectively in the workplace. The revised and expanded second edition of this popular book completely updates the original, providing authoritative guidance on communicating via modern technology in the contemporary work environment. Two new sections on global communication and the Internet address communicating effectively in the context of increased e-mail and web usage. As in the original, David Beer's Second Edition discusses a variety of approaches, such as: * Writing technical documents that are clear and effective * Giving oral presentations more confidently * Using graphics and other visual aids judiciously * Holding productive meetings * Becoming an effective listener The new edition also includes updated articles on working with others to get results and on giving directions that work. Each article is aimed specifically at the needs of engineers and others in the technology professions, and is written by a practicing engineer or a technical communicator. Technical engineers, IEEE society members, and technical writing teachers will find this updated edition of David Beer's classic Writing and Speaking in the Technology Professions an invaluable guide to successful communication.